About Ottawa University

Ottawa University is a not-for-profit, comprehensive 4-year liberal arts and professional studies university. Founded in 1865, Ottawa University has a residential campus in Ottawa, Kansas, and adult education campuses in Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin, as well as multiple instructional sites. Online studies are also offered.

Ottawa University offers a variety of bachelor's degree programs, degree completion, and graduate programs through online and classroom-based program offerings.

In Arizona, Ottawa University features bachelor's degree majors in more than 17 disciplines including English, history, education, psychology, human services, health care management and business. An MBA and Master of Arts programs in human resources, professional counseling and education are also available.

Master of Arts in Professional Counseling

Ottawa University offers students the opportunity to gain deeper knowledge in a specialty area by completing the Master of Arts in Professional Counseling degree with one of four concentrations.

Concentrations are available in the following areas:

Christian Counseling

This concentrated area of study is designed for students who are interested in a program that leads to licensure in professional counseling combined with coursework providing a focus for Christians who work as counselors in Christian and secular settings. Students in the Christian Counseling specialty must be simultaneously, but separately, admitted to both the Ottawa University and the Phoenix Seminary programs. The program consists of significant coursework from both schools. Upon successful completion of all requirements of each school, graduates are awarded the Ottawa University Master of Arts in Professional Counseling (MAPC) and the Phoenix Seminary Graduate Diploma in Christian Counseling (GDCC).

Expressive Arts Therapy

Students admitted to the Expressive Arts Therapy specialty are expected to complete the entire specialty program in the sequence specified for program activities. The course of study consists of specific expressive arts therapy courses, two practica and an advanced practicum/internship in expressive arts therapy in the final year.

Marriage and Family Therapy

Completion of the Master of Arts in Professional Counseling (MAPC) degree with a minimum of 15 semester credit hours in marriage and family therapy coursework, plus 9 hours in electives, is applicable to the education requirements for associate licensure in professional counseling, but not licensure in marriage and family therapy. Individuals interested in meeting the State of Arizona curriculum requirements for licensure as a marriage and family therapist and those for certification by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) (effective 2004; see www.bbhe.state.az.us and www.aamft.org), must complete 27 semester credit hours of coursework. AAMFT certification and Arizona licensure in Marriage and Family Therapy also require extended practicum training.

Treatment of Trauma, Abuse and Deprivation

This concentration allows students to develop understanding and clinical skills for working with individuals, families and groups who are recent victims or adult survivors of violence, abuse, emergency and disaster, loss, and/or neglect and deprivation.

Bachelor of Arts in Human Services

Ottawa University's major in human services provides you with information regarding policies and programs designed to meet community needs among varied groups. You will learn to evaluate issues regarding diversity and social equity and to assist people in coping with personal challenges related to poverty, substance abuse, mental health and relational crisis. Careers in private and public sectors include welfare agencies, church ministries, community development programs, and youth and adult homes.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Ottawa University's psychology program includes the following course options:

• Ethic relations and multiculturalism
• History and systems of psychology
• Physiological psychology
• Principles of psychology
• Theories in personality

Information

If you are interested in this school and would like to find out more, please Request Information from Ottawa University - Phoenix Campus.